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Ugh beware instagram science. Thought I had this mixed up but posted it anyway.
To clarify, mercury’s precession can be viewed during normal times.
But the bending of light was much easier to see during a solar eclipse because it blocked all the other light from the sun… Einstein predicted (secondarily to mercury’s precession) that light would bend if traveling past a planet with a lot of gravity (space curvature around it), since spacetime is the “road” light travels on.
To clarify, mercury’s precession can be viewed during normal times.
But the bending of light was much easier to see during a solar eclipse because it blocked all the other light from the sun… Einstein predicted (secondarily to mercury’s precession) that light would bend if traveling past a planet with a lot of gravity (space curvature around it), since spacetime is the “road” light travels on.